Debate rages over indicted ex-Reddit developer

After more than eight hours of debate between a Reddit cofounder and some New York Times reporters on the official title of one its former employees, some questions have been answered while others have been raised.

In the end, Gallagher was a bit apologetic yet unconvinced that Swartz was not a Reddit cofounder.

“Sorry for the snark,” Gallagher wrote. “Just to clarify: At some point did Aaron come to some agreement with you whereby he was entitled to call himself a cofounder (not creator or founding member or original founder) of Reddit?”

While it seems like the question of who started Reddit has been addressed, others could use some answering. For example, in light of the public quarrel between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin over the entrepreneur's status with the company, how important is it for organizations to nail down their history? And was this Reddit cofounder debate blown out of proportion?

Swartz has said that if Ohanian and Huffman asked him to stop calling himself a cofounder, he would. Ohanian, reached by phone, later clarified that he "regretted" the statement he made to StartupStories.com and that he would, indeed, like Swartz to stop calling himself a cofounder of Reddit. Ohanian also elaborated on the subject of cofounders on his Google+ account.